Foreign News: MOROCCO: Running the Gauntlet

IT was the morning of Islam's greatest feast day, Aid el Kebir. On that
day, by sacrificing a ram. the faithful learn whether the year to come
is to be peaceful and prosperousor disastrous.

With pipes and drums, 5,000 Berber tribesmen, camped below the palace in
the Moroccan city of Rabat, greeted the appearance of a wizened old man
in a white gown whom the French a year ago made Sultan of Morocco.
Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa was nervous. The last two times
he had shown his face in public, he had narrowly...